The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-12
q FARM AND GARDEN.
FLOWING LAND WHEN WET.

grain sown while the soil sticks is often
a cause of failure. II the season is
early enough so that the surface will
freeze over, less harm will be done, as
this will prevent the formation Of a
crust. But land plowed wet in Spring,
if it has any clay in it, will be almost
impossible to pillow in midsummer or
next Fall.
DRIVING FENCE POSTS.
On land not too stony the best plan
to set posts is to drive them down, and
of course the time to do this is in the
Spring, when the moist soil is loosened
by recent frosts. The post is easily
driven down to the depth of the frost,
and in going down, it compacts the
soil around it so tibet it sets more solid
ly than a post can with a hole dug for
il and loosened dirt put around it.
DEFECTIVE SEEDING.
Nothing is more aggravating
than the sight of fields either in grain
or grass with unsown strips running
through them. In grain it makes the
greater showing, but probably the
heavier loss is from poor seeding with
clover, and this is not visible until too
late to remedy the evil. 1t is better to
lap a few feet and SOW double than to
leave and land unseeded. BY dividing
clover and grass seeds and cross sowing
the danger of imperfect seeding is
obviated.
ovERwORKING THREE-YEAR OLD COLTS.
Few horses at three years old are
solid enough to put in at hard work,
though some Percherons at this age
have size and weight to do good deal
without injury. They should never be
worked with others of the same or
nearly the same age, but beside an
old horse careful and steady enough,
enough work may be got out of them
the year they are three years old to pay
for their keep. In the long run it will
be be better not to try to get more
han this from them at this age.
COWS AFTER NARROWING.
After cow has dropped her calf she
will be naturally somewhat feverish,
and inclined to drink great deal. Care
should be taken to warm all drink
given until the calf is at least week
old. She should have laxative, cooling
food, and if it is not in the season for
grass, thin slop made from bran with
tepid water is the best thing she can
have. This is very stimulating to
milk production, and if the udders show
signs of inflamng, draw down the
milk thoroughly several times a day,
taking every drop that the calf leaves.
MANURE FOR EARLY VEGETABLES.
1t is difficult to make early-sown
plants grow rapidly, though the wealth
er may be apparently warm enough.
The soil remains cold after the air is
heated, and therefore does not develop
nitrogen as it does later in Tie season.
There may be enough manure in the
soils of gardens, but early in the
Spring it is not available plant food.
A very small dose of nitrate of soda,
which can now be got quite cheaply,
will pay those growing early vegetables.
though for later gardening the needed
nitrgenous manures may be obtained
At less expense.
sows WITH PIGS.
No hog is quite so ravenous as sow
that is sucking lot Of young pigs
The incessant drain on her sharpens
her appetite amazingly, and yet she
will grow thin while eating perhaps
twice what she could fatten on without
the pigs. But no food ever given to
hog is so well invested as what is fed TO
a sow sucking her young. AT first the
sow's food should be milk and wheat
bran, but after the pigs are week old
some cornmeai may be added with no
fear that she will grow too fat. The
pigs will get all the fat aud growth it
contains.
MATURING IN THE HILL.
All kinds of vines are benefited by
manuring in the hill, besides the
amount applied broadcast to the soil.
But manuring in the hill needs to be
done with discretion, or it will do more
harm than good. Vines are enormous
consumers OF moisture, and with free
bearers are more apt to suffer from
drying out in midsummer than from
any other cause. A forkful of coarse,